Creator Bio
Edmond Jabès
1912–1991
Poet and writer Edmond Jabès was born and raised in Cairo. In 1956, when Egypt ousted its Jewish population during the Suez Crisis, Jabès was forced to leave and moved to Paris. He was considered one of the most important literary figures to write in French after World War II. He won the Prix des Critiques in 1972 and France’s National Grand Prize for Poetry in 1987.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Book of Resemblances
The author of the book in question hides behind various pseudonyms, which are promptly presented as voices from the beginning of time and as figures both familiar and strange: for he is himself a…